Houseboating Adventures - Issue 17 - (Page 36) Top: Our author with his family. Below: Everyday their daughter takes a sampan (water taxi) to the shore and picks up her bus to school. Many sampans ply the harbour, and some of the owners are on call day and night by cell phone! Practical issues include getting connected to shore power, fresh water and telephone. An ex-fisherman friend supplies theirs and other houseboats with these utilities connected by undersea cables from his workshop on the shore. )6B@" A05("%C&5AB9&@
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